Hellfest 2025

[Matt86]

3 hours ago, charlierc said:

Muse at Pinkpop on the 22nd, so any Hellfest appearance won't be on that date.

Linkin Park is already performing the 22th at HellFest

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, Matt86 said:

Linkin Park is already performing the 22th at HellFest

Just checked their schedule and that day is free. Not confirmed yet but could well be a question of time if this thread's insinuations are correct.

 

I'll be surprised if this isn't confirmed next week.

[Matt86]

9 hours ago, charlierc said:

Just checked their schedule and that day is free. Not confirmed yet but could well be a question of time if this thread's insinuations are correct.

 

I'll be surprised if this isn't confirmed next week.

this is not an insinuation lol, I promise 😉 you'll see soon enough

[booshboosh_stronger_than_a]

If I was a betting man right now I'd go similar to:

 

Korn

Judas Priest

Sleep Token

Deftones

Linkin Park (most confident about this one due to being ruled out of Graspop as Werchter booked them and that obvious gap on the 22nd)

 

Next 2 names I'd put up are Slayer & Muse. Scorpions maybe on same day as Priest.

 

Slayer: I don't know whether that is emotion leading me, you feel if they are going to do anything in Europe it will be Hell. But it's a big IF.

 

Muse I wouldn't have thought about them until Foos headlined this year.

 

On ST: unsure if headline or a sub/2nd stage, there's huge hype and a lot of fests are bumping them to headline but Hell somehow manages to book headline bands elsewhere as subs - looking at QOTSA. They were weirdly announced as "exclusive" for Rock AM Ring but that was later removed from them and kept for BMTH.

 

Agree with completely ruling out: Green Day (too pop/schedules clash), Gojira (whole tour announced later in the year, plus doing back end of festival season), BMTH (Rock Am Ring exclusive), Ghost (likely 2026), Maiden (scheduling doesn't work), Sabaton (tour for autmumn/winter booked, likely 2026)

 

Almost ruled out Slipknot as feels too soon to have them back, Graspop forums feel they are surely booked there and that would make the scheduling pretty intense for them (they would headline Graspop, Copenhell and Hellfest 3 days in a row)

 

Other bigger bands I could see making an appearance are: A Day to Remember (possible 2nd stage headline?), Sex Pistols & Frank Carter, In Flames, Till Lindemann, Falling in Reverse, Spiritbox, Within Temptation, Knocked Loose and Turnstile